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Justin Precourt, interim president of Worcester’s UMass Memorial Medical Center, has officially shed his provisional title, assuming his role as president of the largest hospital in Central Massachusetts. 

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Learnings from ongoing Healthy at Home Study at UMass Chan Medical School pave the way for expansion of innovative COPD care at home.

“There's not many people like Erik,” said Justin Precourt, president of UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester. “He works day and night, tirelessly, to help meet the needs of the underserved and the Worcester community.”

Includes UMass Memorial Health Cancer Center in a list of 100 hospital and health systems with great oncology programs. 

There's no doubt the number of COVID-19 infections are on the rise this summer. If it’s not an official surge, it’s a steep upward curve, and the numbers prove it. 

Massachusetts experienced a 33% spike in confirmed and probable COVID cases in the past month, according to the state Department of Public Health. Cases jumped from 1,901 in early July to 2,929 in early August.

At UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, the largest health system in Central Massachusetts, a new program will provide Black women who are giving birth access to culturally tailored and equitable support from a doula.

Medical experts are stressing that members of the public should be up to date on their vaccines as Massachusetts, including the Worcester area, sees a significant spike in two respiratory illnesses. 

One is pertussis, also called whooping cough, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health reports a fivefold increase statewide in the number of confirmed cases, with 754 so far this year, compared to 115 in the same period last year.

Benjamin Hamar, MD, Director of the Maternity Center at UMass Memorial and a member of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division, discuss the new hospital-at-home program for postpartum patients.